Chapter 28 The escape volunteers are running away!
When Ye Xuan opened his eyes, he found himself back in the most familiar scene in this plot - the laboratory.
He looked around and saw Director Qin sitting in the chair that Assistant Fang had originally sat in, with his head lowered, as if he was taking a rest.
The volunteer who was in a strange state before tried to hurt Qin, but this one showed great skills. Seeing that he seemed to be fine, Xing felt relieved.
"Director Qin..." The intern still served as an assistant. After such a serious mistake, the institute would not be able to recruit new people for the time being.
The boy didn't raise his head, and said sullenly, "Speak."
She hesitated to speak, obviously not wanting to report any good news.
The real NPC noticed that the atmosphere in the laboratory was not right. Everyone was dejected and listless, with dark circles under their eyes so severe that they could be put directly into the panda house for exhibition.
"The latest data shows that the situation has not improved after the medication was changed, but has accelerated its deterioration. Volunteers who were originally normal have also begun to show mental instability, and it was found that the previous batch of volunteers had lesions on their body surfaces -" She paused, the cause is still unknown.
This is indeed strange. Logically speaking, this disease should not have such serious complications. Even if it is caused by drugs, it is unlikely to happen.
Qin lowered his head to think about countermeasures. Seeing that he refused to look up, the intern thought that he was not satisfied with his work report and became more nervous.
"Director Qin," she quickly added her new findings to help the other party broaden his thinking, "We tested the blood samples of the volunteers and got a strange result."
The other party tapped his fingers unconsciously: "Speak."
The intern probably knew that Director Qin didn’t like to talk when he was depressed, so he continued, “After comparing the samples with those before the drug test, we observed a virus that we couldn’t identify.”
"Virus?" Qin finally raised his head and looked at the other party. "Describe it in detail."
Ye Xuan leaned over to take a look at the printed picture information. Although he had no idea what it was, he had to at least pretend to be able to do it since no one else could "see" him - who knew how many of the people present were players.
Ever since he learned that in addition to the players who triggered the plot mission, other players in the same scene could also see what he did, he tried his best to maintain his image. After all, it would be difficult to recover if you lost face too much.
"The appearance of this virus is very strange, completely different from what I know. It may be a newly discovered species." The assistant said as he handed the information to the director.
Discovering new viruses seems to be a way to win the award.
Ye Xing didn’t understand the award judging mechanism in this plot, he just felt that any new discoveries were a blessing in disguise.
The unknown is always more frightening.
"Oh no!" A man suddenly pushed the door open, scaring everyone in the laboratory.
"What's wrong?" Director Qin stood up. He was the person in charge of this laboratory and was supposed to come out and deal with such emergencies.
"The patient ran away!" The man looked panicked and shouted in a sharp, broken voice.
"What?!" It was really like when it rains and when it pours, this happened.
Among the people present, only Director Qin remained relatively calm. He was surprised for only a second before asking, "Where is the patient?"
The man took a few deep breaths and tried to calm himself down so that he could answer the other person's question: "I am a volunteer for your laboratory to develop drugs, otherwise I would not have come to inform you."
"Not good," Qin realized the seriousness of the problem, "Those people are aggressive now. If we let them get away, the consequences will be disastrous! All of you, follow me and chase them!"
"Ah?" The others looked at each other, and for a moment no one took a step forward. "Director Qin, we are researchers, so we shouldn't take the job of the Security Department, right?"
Seeing that they were still hesitating at such a critical moment, the boy pushed away the "messenger" blocking his way and rushed out.
Ye Xuan quickly followed him out the door, but a weakling like him who lacked training could not keep up with the opponent's speed and was almost thrown out of sight.
Why are you running so fast? Are you in a hurry to save the world?
He thought about the script again and thought that maybe the player really had to save the world.
I’ve watched movies with my classmates about zombie virus outbreaks before, and those volunteers might have turned into zombies.
What kind of weird and messed up plot is this? Is this a post-apocalyptic theme? Is there such a thing in the game?
He felt that the plot planning was absolutely random, with all kinds of settings being put into a game at once. What kind of audience would this game be aimed at?
Finally he ran to the gate, and Ye Xing walked panting step by step to a distance of about fifteen meters away from Qin.
There was a reason why he didn't get closer. After all, he was not like the other party who could avoid the attack of the "mutated" volunteers.
Those people stared at the young man in front of them with their unfocused eyes.
"Go back," Qin seemed a little angry. He repeated it again and emphasized it, "Go back!"
Ye Xuan thought that the player character of this mission was quite interesting. When faced with this "weird" scene, he did not show fear like other people, but was a little angry instead.
He was right about being angry, and the reason was actually very simple: Qin had always wanted to realize his dream of many years by developing this drug, but all of this was ruined now. This damn disease was the stumbling block that shattered his hopes of winning the award.
Those people obviously would not listen to him. Instead, they pounced on him with ferocious faces as if they had some deep hatred.
It's all your fault!
The volunteer who had not yet completely lost consciousness was shouting in his heart. Although his vocal cords were damaged and he could only make hoarse roars at best, he still wanted to shout out unwillingly.
If it weren't for the medicine you developed, I would never have become this half-human, half-ghost appearance!
Ye Xing watched their inner thoughts emerge above their heads and sighed.
Most of these volunteers participate in drug trials in order to cure their own chronic diseases, and there are probably no ones who truly intend to devote themselves to scientific research.
The information clearly states that most of them cannot afford the high cost of treatment and have no choice but to act as guinea pigs to get treatment.
Since it is an experiment, anything is possible. This disease is very special, and no similar symptoms have been found in organisms other than humans. Therefore, the efficacy of the drug can only be tested on humans.
The volunteers knew from the beginning that the risks were high. Signing the agreement was like signing a life and death agreement. Danger and accidents could happen at any time.
But what they didn't expect was that the situation this time was so abnormal that their pain was even worse than when they were sick.
It is natural for them to feel resentful. Shortly after the trial began, everyone told them that the new drug was very effective and there was great hope for a cure.
They believed it, cooperated more closely with the prescribed treatment, insisted on taking their medication the next day, and some volunteers even secretly increased their medication dosage.
Almost all of them are people from the bottom of society. They believe that any medicine that can cure them is a good thing, and since it is a good thing, they should take as much as possible.
It was probably intentional in the plot that the people in the institute did not realize that they had taken an excessive dose of drugs.
After watching this plot, Ye Xing felt that it was not quite reasonable.
Assistant Fang had said before that the medicines used for preparation were very valuable, and the prepared medicines were even more precious. So how could it be as easy to steal a potato or vegetable from the kitchen?
However, the plot development of this script is rather strange. This is probably the desired effect, so he doesn't plan to delve into it further.
Seeing these people rushing towards him, the young man sneered and knocked them to the ground with three punches and two kicks, making the real NPC suspect that he might have accidentally entered a martial arts script.
A scientific research genius has such a high fighting capacity? This is outrageous.
Seeing that they had already started fighting, Ye Xing began to doubt that the security department mentioned by the researcher earlier did not actually exist.
Those volunteers are now slow in their movements, and they are certainly no match for Qin if they fight alone, but they have the advantage of numbers. If you fall down and I pounce on you, it will be difficult to deal with you.
His own character had not yet appeared, and Ye Xing could only watch anxiously. After being infected by the atmosphere in front of him, he excitedly "gave instructions" a few words, just like a fan watching a football game in front of the TV.
Qin couldn't hear what he said, but his judgment was very accurate. Every time he could strike as soon as he sensed the attack, and then dodge the next attack. He was very agile.
However, his physical strength was limited, while those who should be patients did not show any signs of fatigue. They continued to repeat the cycle of attacking - being knocked down - getting up - attacking again, as if they would never get tired.
"Director Qin, get out of the way!" Finally reinforcements arrived, and several uniformed security guards came with weapons.
When they ran closer, Ye Xing could see clearly that the so-called "weapon" was something that looked like a fire extinguisher.
"Puff——" light orange foamy unknown objects were seen spraying out of those "fire extinguishers" with a pungent and unpleasant smell.
Those who lost control let out hoarse wails after being sprayed.
"What did you use?!" The young man pulled the nozzle away from those people and questioned the security guard in a harsh voice.
"Just, some newly developed... uh, I don't know what it is. They were given to us by our superiors." The security guard stammered and couldn't answer.
"This smell, if I'm not mistaken—" Director Qin paused, "will intensify their reaction."
Sure enough, as soon as the words fell, those people who originally walked unsteadily were suddenly able to directly participate in the sports meeting and ran faster than Qin.
"Stop them quickly!" Qin chased after them, but when he turned back he found that no one had followed him. Everyone was scared.
These guys are always causing trouble but can’t do anything good!
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